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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 23:28:29 +0200
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On 2025-05-09 18:22, Joe Gwinn wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2025 14:18:53 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-05-08 23:57, Don Y wrote:
>>>>> That is a feature of UPS design that specsmanship to get the longest
>>>>> run time for the sales datasheet means that they cook their
>>>>> batteries. I have seen them swell to the point of bursting inside a
>>>>> UPS. Thick rubber gloves needed to remove the remains. Support
>>>>> metalwork was a real corroded rusty mess but electronics above it
>>>>> remained OK.
>>>>
>>>> That level of "not working" has not happened to me. Maybe because some
>>>> power failure makes me find out that the battery is dead.
>>>
>>> I've rescued a fair number of UPSs over the years.  In probably 80% of
>>> them, the batteries have swollen to the point where removing the battery
>>> or battery PACK is difficult.  This is especially true of the "better"
>>> UPSs (sine output, 48V battery, metal fabrication) where there is
>>> little "give" in the mechanical design.  Often one has to disassemble
>>> the UPS to see where one can gain leverage on the battery pack
>>> to force it from the case.
>>>
>>>>> They really think I'm going to buy their vastly overpriced replacements?
>>>>
>>>> I don't.
>>>>
>>>> But last battery I replaced was not even two years old, rather 5
>>>> months short. I replaced it just in time to serve during the Gran Apagón.
>>>
>>> That's the problem; you don't KNOW how long a particular battery will last,
>>> even in an environment where it is never called on for backup!
>>>
>>> Instead, you are forced into a "reactive" mode -- waiting for something
>>> to tell you you're screwed and need a replacement, now!
>>>
>>> My largest UPS uses 50 pound batteries (8 of them).
>>
>> Are they 12 volts each, or just one cell?
>>
>> On phone exchanges I saw huge batteries, actually individual cells
>> connected in series. 48 volts nominally, so 24 cells. I don't think they
>> were gel types, they needed adding water now and then.
> 
> The were most likely KS-20472 BELLCELL lead-acid battery cells,
> originally made by Western Electric, or European equivalent.  These
> are 2.2 volts per cell.
> 
> .<https://library.industrialsolutions.abb.com/publibrary/checkout/107852477?TNR=Installation%20and%20Instruction%7C107852477%7CPDF>

Those I saw were prismatic, not cylindrical.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.